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Taxes and benefits: two distinct options to cheat on the state?

Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich - 2005

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Taxes and benefits : two distinct options to cheat on the state?

Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich - 2005 - This version: April 10, 2012

In this paper we study the social norms to abstain from cheating on the state via benefit fraud and tax evasion. We interpret these norms (called benefit morale and tax morale) as moral goods, and derive testable hypotheses on whether their demand is determined by prices. Employing a large...

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Protestantism and government spendig : a negative relationship? ; an empirical application to Swiss Cantons

Fischer, Justina A. V. (contributor); … - 2007

Recent empirical growth literature suggests that cultural factors play a decisive role in economic development, while empirical evidence for their impact on government activity remains scant. In this paper, we conjecture based on Weber's Protestant Ethics that 'Protestant values' such as...

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Street prostitution zones and crime

Bisschop, Paul; Kastoryano, Stephen; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2015

This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime …. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under … different regulation systems. We provide evidence that the opening of these zones was not in response to changes in crime. Our …

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An empirical analysis of the dynamics of the welfare state : the case of benefit morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - 2009

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009239030

An empirical analysis of the dynamics of the welfare state : the case of benefit morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845503

An empirical analysis of the dynamics of the welfare state : the case of benefit morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850182

An empirical analysis of the dynamics of the welfare state : the case of benefit morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - 2009

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say?s law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343934

Counseling and monitoring of unemployed workers : theory and evidence from a controlled social experiment

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2001

We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...

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Dynamic evaluation of job search assistance

Kastoryano, Stephen; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2011

This paper evaluates a job search assistance program for unemployment insurance recipients. The assignment to the program is dynamic. We provide a discussion on dynamic treatment effects and identification conditions. In the empirical analyses we use administrative data from a unique...

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